Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Gas Cylinders Message-ID: Date: 19 Aug 89 00:41:52 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Roy Smith Organization: Public Health Research Inst. (NY, NY) Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 311, message 5 of 10 For what it's worth, the only nitrogen tanks I've seen on the street (marked "property of NYTel") are LN2 (liquid) tanks. You can get either liquid nitrogen or gas out of them, depending on which valve you open. The newer tanks are stainless steel (or at least they look that way). At the lab, we get LN2 in either the stainless tanks, or similar sized older tanks painted white. I've never seen the old white ones on the street. It always struck me as odd that they left LN2 tanks laying around where anybody could wander along and have a fast lesson in cryogenics. -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"